Christopher Steele
| Christopher D. Steele | |
|---|---|
| Born |
24 June 1964 Aden, Federation of South Arabia |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Girton College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Private intelligence consultant |
| Organization | Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd |
Christopher David Steele (born 24 June 1964) is a former British intelligence officer, and a founding director of Orbis Business Intelligence, a London-based private intelligence firm. He is the author of a controversial 2016 report that claims Russia collected a file of compromising information on U.S. president Donald Trump.
Christopher David Steele was born in Aden, Federation of South Arabia, on 24 June 1964. He attended Girton College, Cambridge and wrote for the oldest of Cambridge University's main student newspapers, Varsity. In the Easter term of 1986, Steele was President of The Cambridge Union. He was known as a "confirmed Socialist", and graduated with a degree in Social and Political Sciences in 1986.
Steele was recruited by MI6 directly following his graduation from Cambridge, working in London at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) from 1987 to 1989. From 1990 to 1992, Steele worked under diplomatic cover as an MI6 agent in Moscow, serving at the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Moscow. Steele's identity as an MI6 officer was one of 115 names Her Majesty's Government attempted to suppress through a DSMA-Notice in 1999. He returned to London in 1993, working again at the FCO until his posting to Paris in 1998, where he served under diplomatic cover until 2002. In 2003, Steele was sent to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan as part of an MI6 team, briefing Special Forces on "kill or capture" missions for Taliban targets, and also spent time teaching new MI6 recruits. Between 2004 and 2009 Steele headed the Russia Desk at MI6.
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